TENANT NUISANCES

Court Denies Preliminary Injunction Against Tenant in Ejectment Case Claiming Nuisance

October 25, 2024    

Landlord sued to eject rent-stabilized tenant and her son for breaching a prior settlement agreement and creating a nuisance. Landlord also sought money damages and a preliminary injunction restraining the defendants...

Nuisance and Lease Violation Claims Against Rent-Stabilized Tenant Dismissed

August 28, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant with a Section 8 housing voucher for creating a nuisance and for breaching her lease. Landlord had sent tenant a notice to cure before proceeding in court. Landlord...

Landlord Not Responsible for Stopping Dispute Among Co-Tenant Family Members

August 28, 2024    

Two rent-stabilized tenants, A and B, living in the same three-bedroom apartment, sued their other two co-tenants, C and D, and their landlord. Tenant A was the son of Tenant C. Tenant B was Tenant A's wife. The...

NYCHA Can Terminate Tenancy of Tenant Who Threatened Landlord's Employees

July 25, 2024    

NYCHA tenant filed an Article 78 court appeal of NYCHA's decision, made after a hearing, that tenant was ineligible to continue her occupancy of an apartment in a public housing development based on...

Landlord Must Commence Ejectment Action Against Nuisance Tenant

March 27, 2024    

Tompkins County landlord sued to evict tenant for creating a nuisance and objectionable conduct. Landlord sent tenant several prior notices before commencing the court proceeding but didn't serve a lease...

Tenants Can't Appeal Conditions Imposed on Hearing Adjournment in Nuisance Case

March 26, 2024    

Landlord, a co-op corporation, sued to evict shareholder tenant for violating provisions of their proprietary lease and house rules that prohibited unreasonable noise. Following a trial, a judgment of possession for...

Eviction Case Based on Nuisance Dismissed for Deficient Termination Notice

February 26, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for creating a nuisance. Tenant's attorneys asked the court to dismiss the case, claiming that landlord's termination notice was deficient.  Before the court...

Tenants Didn't Present Viable Grounds for Dismissal of Eviction Proceeding

February 26, 2024    

Landlord sued to evict tenants for creating a nuisance. Tenants asked the court to dismiss the case for a number of reasons, including improper service and insufficient notice of claims. The court ruled against...

Condo Board Seeks Damages from Unit Owner for His Tenants' Nuisance Behavior

February 26, 2024    

Landlord, a condominium board of managers, sued a condo unit owner for permitting and failing to adequately address the nuisance behavior of tenants he had rented the apartment to. The board sought declaratory and...

Landlord Co-op Corp. Properly Terminated Proprietary Lease

February 26, 2024    

Landlord cooperative corporation sued to evict proprietary lessee for engaging in objectionable conduct. The court ruled for landlord without trial and denied tenant's motion to dismiss the case along with her...

Termination Notice Didn't Sufficiently Explain How Tenant Failed to Cure Conditions

December 20, 2023    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for breach of lease and creating a nuisance. The court granted tenant's request to dismiss the case. Landlord sent tenant a Notice of Termination dated two days after...

Landlord Must Pursue Ejectment Action to Evict Rent-Stabilized Tenant for Nuisance

November 27, 2023    

Landlord sued to evict rent-stabilized tenant for creating or permitting a nuisance. After trial, the court found that the tenant had engaged in a number of incidents of threatening and harassing conduct toward the...